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I love this movie, and even own my copy, something I can say about very few of the movies I have found on here. Even if you haven’t heard about Zemsta it is a classic and very Polish. If you took Romeo and Juliet, and mushed it up with A Midsummer’s Night Dream, threw in some typical Polish archetypes; like Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Zagłoba (Polanski’s character), the feuding poor (but once great) noble families fighting a pigheaded, but futile war over an outwardly absurd piece of property, a beautiful widow, and shake up the bag … you will probably have a good idea of what will happen. If you want to get overly analytical you can draw many parallels with Poland itself and this movie/play, but that should be left for a longer forum.

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I love this movie, and even own my copy, something I can say about very few of the movies I have found on here. Even if you haven’t heard about Zemsta it is a classic and very Polish. If you took Romeo and Juliet, and mushed it up with A Midsummer’s Night Dream, threw in some typical Polish archetypes; like Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Zagłoba (Polanski’s character), the feuding poor (but once great) noble families fighting a pigheaded, but futile war over an outwardly absurd piece of property, a beautiful widow, and shake up the bag … you will probably have a good idea of what will happen. If you want to get overly analytical you can draw many parallels with Poland itself and this movie/play, but that should be left for a longer forum.